[Skytools-users] Londiste - running both the ticker and replication daemon on the provider machine

[Marko Kreen]

On 7/15/09, Mohanaraj Gopala Krishnan <mohangk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to inquire if it is a bad idea to run both the replication
> daemon and the ticker on the machine that is hosting the provider database.
> This would mean that the slave database would not have any daemons running
> on it. The thinking here is to limit the need to install the skytools
> package only to one machine instead of two. If the setup is just between one
> master to one other slave, would this setup be ok?

Unless the master host is seriously overloaded, it should be ok.

> What is the benefit of running the replication daemon on the slave machine
> apart from not overloading one machine with too much work.

It is logically tied to slave, not master.  This is more strongly
visible in 3.0, where the londiste process can switch masters at will.

-- 
marko